"Altered-self" or "near-self" in the positive selection of lymphocyte repertoires?

Immunology Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-106

  Forsdyke, Donald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altered self; Lymphocytes; Near self; Negative repertoire selection; Positive repertoire selection; Self not self discrimination; Sub threshold self reactivity

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER CELL; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CLONAL DELETION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; SELF TOLERANCE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 24344456061     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2005.03.018     Document Type: Review

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